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What is the licensing of AlphaFold? If the drug makes it to market, does the creators owe royalties?
by was_a_dev 5y ago
What is the licensing of AlphaFold? If the drug makes it to market, does the creators owe royalties?
- eesmith 5y agoOne of the follow-ups points to https://github.com/deepmind/alphafold/issues/14#issuecomment-1016728634 https://github.com/deepmind/alphafold/issues/14#issuecomment... which comments "Hi, we have recently changed the license terms for the AlphaFold weights to CC BY 4.0, which permits commercial use", from 4 days ago. It looks like the source license at https://github.com/deepmind/alphafold/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/deepmind/alphafold/blob/main/LICENSE is Apache 2.0.
- was_a_dev 5y agoSounds like that startup was hedging their bets for the license to change